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  • The Whole Nine Yards Episode 214 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 2nd March 2025 3-5pm http://www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen Embraced For a century now, contemporary music has reflected the pressing issues of its time. In recent years, the conversation on diversity and inclusion has descended on global hot spots such as Australia, the United Read more

  • The Whole Nine Yards Episode 207 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 12th January 2025 3-5pm http://www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen Unwavering In a week of natural and man-made disasters how do we explain the unwavering human spirit? This week, we delve into the essence of perseverance and faith, exploring how these qualities shape our lives Read more

  • https://www.mixcloud.com/roystannard/the-whole-nine-yards-ep-160-18224-dear-god/ The Whole Nine Yards Episode 160 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 18th February 2024 3-5pm http://www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen Dear God Knowing that God is out there is strangely comforting. It means that we are not just uber-animals trying to be the fittest to survive. It makes sense of our endless search for Read more

  • https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/roy-stannard/episodes/The-Whole-Nine-Yards-Ep-135-27-8-23-Dreams-Escaping-from-Towers-with-Roy-Stannard-on-Mid-Sussex-Radio-103-8FM-e28j82j The Whole Nine Yards Episode 135 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 27th August 2023 3-5pm http://www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen Dreams escaping from Towers The castle or fortress tower metaphor gives us a powerful symbol for the ways in which human ambition can be confined by fear. It reminds us of the importance of Read more

  • THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS https://anchor.fm/roy-stannard/episodes/Lost-Immortals-Ep-161-24-4-22-with-Roy-Stannard-and-Matt-Staples-on-Burgess-Hill-Radio-103-8FM-e1hjq3g Ep 161 24.4.22 5-7pm on Burgess Hill Community Radio103.8FM with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples www.burgesshillradio.co.uk/listenlive Like Brighton‘s West Pier some songs survive through the years, unloved and neglected until suddenly they are re-discovered and retrieve their beauty, but in a totally different way. Like seagulls Read more

  • Grief is the trigger mechanism built into our complicated psychology that makes us aware of the broken world around us. We don’t rejoice in suffering, we do something about it. God sacrificed his son to save a seriously messed-up world. We can assume that this was not a joyful experience. Grief can save you. Read more

  • Who Is Like God?

      Who is like God? Love was the father and love the mother. You arrived in December, anticipating another Christmas A reward in yourself rather than a present A pilgrimage more than a journey Because we cannot find love in ourselves Only with another And you were the purest love The world of love in Read more

  • Do It Yourself Celebrity

    Last Friday 29th July I went to the Holmbush Centre at Shoreham to help my old friend and radio colleague Patrick Souiljaert man (person?) a stand at the entrance to Tesco there. He has written an autobiography in microscopic detail about the challenges of his life as a person with Cerebral Palsy. He was starved Read more

  • The End of Failing

    The End of Failing   The Winter tide nibbles at a toe-dipped shoreline, Above, the lowering sky grumbles at the lack of light smudging a moleskin horizon. A couple embroider loose stitches along the waveline emerging like creation from the waters half-way between the depths and the heights, not quite fact or fiction holding hands, Read more